An informal portrait of Kansas governor Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon, campaigning for President of the United States from a rail car in Canton, Ohio. Landon lost the 1936 presidential election to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and carried only Maine and Vermont for a total of 8 electoral votes to Roosevelt's 523.

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An informal portrait of Kansas governor Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon, campaigning for President of the United States from a rail car in Canton, Ohio. Landon lost the 1936 presidential election to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and carried only Maine and Vermont for a total of 8 electoral votes to Roosevelt's 523.